Silks and the Meanings

a girl in white training silks is generally a virgin. She does not serve food/drink and converses in tower. She is not available sexually, unless she is in a Master's ko~lar, and then only to Him. If a girl is a virgin, her virginity will be raffled off to anywhere from one to ten Men. In some cases, a Master will petition the Ubar to keep the girl intact because He wishes to buy her and de-flower her Himself. Her duties involve studying and chores ONLY.

white silk denotes a slave who is untrained, a virgin, or for her Owner's use only. They are not to be touched or to touch. (a personally owned slave may not be clothed in silk that is white in color. The term white silk to her Master, means that she is not available for sexual use to other Men. She may have rigid restrictions by which she is allowed to live, these restrictions are for the most part respected by other Free Men. When these restrictions are ignored by Someone the slave is serving, her Master will, in most cases, take it as a personal insult/disrespect to His property.)

yellow silk slaves within the level of yellow silk training are more often than not tavern slaves, serving as kettle and mat girls. They are available for rented sexual use. The price of the yellow silk girls owned by Midnight Steel is the price of a drink.

red silk girls are trained pleasure slaves, have the skills of a kettle and mat girl enhanced by the skills of pleasing a man. The red silk slaves of Midnight Steel can be rented for use. Ask the slave her price.

An Owner may dress his slave in what ever he finds most appealing to his own eye. This can be pleasure silk, woven rep cloth, cur-lon fiber, verr wool, siriks, sarongs or bareskin. Naked slaves allow the Owner easier access to her Master's property.

A girl in grey silks is a room-owned slave. Her garment is generally made of cloth, a camisk, instead of silk. This girl is known to be in her kettle ko~lar under the room rules (though this rule is different in other sites). Her chores are studying and cleaning ONLY. She does not speak to a Master or Mistress unless addressed first and never speaks to V/visitors.

An unowned slave is in her black silks. The girl is known to be in a kettle ko~lar.

purple silks are reserved for slaves of the Priest Kings. The 'silks' are actually plastic. These slaves generally serve only in the Sardar Mountains, the Home of the Priest Kings, and such slaves are called muls.

"Please, Master", she said, "take pity on me. Take pity on the miserable needs of a girl." "You are not mine", I told her. "You are a pretty little thing, but I do not own you." "Please," she said. "Your Master", I said, "if he chooses, will satisfy your needs. If he does not, he will not." For all I knew she might be under the discipline of deprivation. If that were so, I had no wish to impair the effectiveness of her master's control over her. Besides I did not know him. I did not wish to do him dishonor, whoever he might be. pgs. 48-9, BEASTS OF GOR

"She is a slave," I said. "Anything could be done with her." "By her master", he said. "Not just anyone." "True", I said. One did not have the right, for example, to kill or maim the slave of another, any more than any other domestic animal which might belong to someone else. In this sense the slave is accorded some protection from free persons who do not own her in virtue of certain general considerations of property law. The power of the master over the slave, on the other hand, is absolute. He can do whatever he wishes with her. She belongs to him, completely. pg. 330, MAGICIANS OF GOR

Use Discipline: A Gorean Concept of punishment, whereby a slave may be subjected to sexual use, by a free person, as a form of discipline. Such sexual use is considered within the realm of the rights of any free person, over a Gorean slave, as long as the Master of said slave is duly compensated. Free persons on Gor may discipline or correct any slave. paraphrased from MAGICIANS OF GOR.

Slave Types

Kajira:
A female slave

Barbarian:
A native of the planet Earth, usually used in a derogatory sense in reference to slave girls from that planet. Also defined as slave girls captured from outlying regions or cities. Barbarian slave girls from Earth are considered shamelessly sensual.

Bath Girls:
Are slaves at the public and private baths. They wear a chain and plate collar. The plate gives their name and cost. They wear towels with nothing beneath them. While swimming, many wrap a long broad strap of glazed leather about their heads like a turban. The bath girls are there for the pleasure of men. Sometimes the girls will pretend to swim away from the men and try to escape but are easily caught by the men. This is done on purpose as most girls could easily avoid the men if they wished. They become excellent swimmers.

Below-deck Girl:
The term used for slave girls transported in the hold of a ship. They are held in individual cages and because of infestations of lice, all of their body hair is shaved. The term 'below-deck girl' is used derisively especially by those slavegirls allowed to remain on deck in cages, who need not have shaved heads, though all slaves on a slaver ship are unclothed.

Bond-maid:
The term for a slave girl used in Torvaldsland also called a girl whose belly lies under the sword.

Chamber Slave:
A slave of the Priest Kings restricted to use within a particular chamber; these slaves cannot leave the chamber and are to serve the Freeperson living there fully.

City Slave:
Slave girl in any city, her duties in the apartment cylinders are largely domestic.

Coin Girl:
a slave girl who, with a coinbox and triangular flat bell chained around her neck, is sent out in the streets of a city to earn money from Masters in return for her sexual use.

Display Slave:
a slave girl whose primary purpose is for the display of her beauty to reflect the affluence of her Master; often chained in coffle with other display slaves behind the palanquin or other transport of her Master.

Exotic Slave:
a slave male or female bred for special purposes producing quaint or unusual purposes; an example is the passion slave.

Field Slave:
these slaves work outdoors, usually gardening, fetching wood or water, etc. She is commonly dressed in plain, sturdy slave tunics. Her hair is shorn.

First Girl:
slave appointed by the Master to oversee other usually younger or less experienced girls; she rules when FreePersons are not present as the Master, but she is subject to his total authority, usually called Mistress by the other girls, she may have switching rights over them as well.

Flute Girl:
a slave trained in the art of music, specifically the playing of the double flute. They perform at various functions and are available for sexual use by those free men of their audience.

House Slave:
one whose primary duties are inside the residence. Duties range from personal serving girls to kettle and mat girls.

Kettle Slave/Pot Girl:
girl whose main function is cooking and other menial household tasks; used disparagingly.

Kettle-and-mat Girl:
a slave girl whose function is divided between household tasks and sexual servitude.

Last Girl:
used to denote either the newest girl on a chain, or the least of all the girls.

Luck Girl:
a slave girl who acts as mascot onboard ship; her use is usually reserved for the captain of the ship, but she may be shared with the crew, usually as a disciplinary measure.

Lure Girl:
slaves who are set out by their master's to entice men for the purposes of empressing as crewmen or in work gangs. While the man is delightfully distracted, her master's men accost him and hustle him away; also used by panther girls to entice men to be captured as their slaves.

Mul:
a Priest-King term for a human slave

Passion Slave:
a slave girl who has been bred, rather than captured; specifically, one that has been bred for a particular trait, such as beauty or slave heat or the shape of her lips.

Personal Serving Slave:
a slave assigned or owned by the person she obeys. Her duties may include running errands, general cleaning, or caring for personal belongings.

Pierced-ear Girl:
a slave girl whose ears have been pierced; as piercing a girl's ears is consider the ultimate degradation, it virtually guarantees that the girl will never be freed; the practice first became popular after the fall of Turia to the Wagon Peoples, but is gaining acceptance in the northern cities, especially Ar.

Pleasure Slave:
a slave girl whose main function is sexual servitude to her master; traditionally, she kneels with her knees spread wide, and her hands either resting on her thighs or, in some cities, crossed behind her, ready for binding.

Scribe Slaves:
scribes that have been captured, they do the bookkeeping no one else wants to do. they are above other slaves with the fact they can read and write, but aren't above, like all slaves, cooking, cleaning and warming the furs.

Self-contract, Limited Slave:
an arrangement wherein a Free Woman contracts to be an experimental slave for a period of time ranging from one night to a year. Her documents will contain a specified termination date.

She-urts:
short for 'she-urts of the wharves' homeless free girls - runaways vagabonds orphans etc. - who live near the canals in port cities surviving by scavenging begging stealing and sleeping with paga attendants; they sleep wherever they find space and usually wear a brief tunic instead of Robes of Concealment.

Side-block Girl:
A slave girl sold for a fixed price from the side block of a slave auction house instead of auctioned from the main block; used disparagingly.

Silk Girl:
term used by those of Torvaldsland to denote a slave girl from the southern cities; often used disparagingly.

Stable Girls:
these slaves tend to the male slaves needs so they do not become unruly and keep them in line.

State Slave:
a state owned girl may have various duties, ranging from general cleaning to carrying messages. State tunics and collars are uniform, sleeveless and plain. Considered by most states an unenviable slavery. Tavern Slave:
also called "kettle-and-mat girls" see above

Tower Slave:
a state slave girl in any of the cities of Gor; her duties in the apartment cylinders are largely domestic; traditionally, she kneels with her knees together and with her wrists crossed in front of her, as if for binding.

Work Slave:
a category of slaves consisting of field slaves, stable slaves, etc. These females are considered, like kettle and mat girls, to be low slaves. Kajirus:
male slave

Field Slaves:
these slaves work in the fields, cultivating and caring for the crops, commonly dressed in plain, sturdy slave tunics with shorn hair.

Fighting Slaves:
Many cities have arena for gladitorial combat. This combat is often quite lethal and many fighting slaves are seriously injured or killed during these games. These male slaves may learn the use of certain weapons, primarily cestae and other common arena weapons. In most cases, free men do not enter these arena games.

Galley Slaves:
Port Kar, Cos and Tyros utilize thousands of male galley slaves on their ships.

Seduction Slaves:
They are used to lure free women into compromising situations so that the women can be made slaves by the couching laws. The couching laws exist in many Gorean cities. Essentially the law states that any free woman who couches with another’s slave, or even prepares to do so, becomes a slave herself and the slave of the male slave’s master.

Silk Slave:
a male slave kept by Free Women as sexual toys, handsome and sometimes pretty by male standards, these slaves are often muscular and manly, as Free Women love having strong men at their feet, this can be dangerous if the slave doesn't know his place or wishes to be free. At the present time there is a city ordinance in Ar which restricts the sexual use, or "couching" of slaves by Free Women, due to the widespread belief that the physical charms of precious Free Women are reserved only for the Free.

Stable Slave:
these kajiri are kept in stables and care for the livestock sometimes fighting for benefits, or betting money for their Owners; rewarded with female stable slaves.

Thralls:
male slaves of Torvaldsland.

Work Slaves:
They are usually used on cargo galleys, mines, great farms or as porters on wharves. Many cities use male slaves for some of the unpleasant labor in the cities, such as in the refuse pits. Most males work on chains with other slaves.

Kajira/Kajirus:
These are slaves, female and male respectively. There are many types of slaves to be found on Gor, however, the most common is the ordinary kajira, a multipurpose personal female slave. These slaves are referred to as "kettle and mat" slaves; in other words, they do everything from serve as scullery, to cooking, serving, and warming Master's furs at night. Pleasure slaves are often referred to in discussion, but actually are not common. Just because a slave is used for pleasure, does not qualify her as a pleasure slave. However, the term is wrongly but commonly in use among those of little knowledge; being applied to ANY female slave. Of course all kajira are given the basic instructions in how to serve as a sexual slave.

Passion Slave:
A girl, not trained, but Bred specifically for sex. No Earth girl is EVER a passion slave. It inconceivable and impossible. No passion slave is ever taken to Earth either. Passion slaves are almost never freed. Passion slaves breed true, and their children are marked with the mark of the house that bred them. In this way they are easily identified.. Male passion slaves are harder to identify, except that they are uncommonly beautiful and almost always have a club foot (inherited from the mother). DO NOT claim to be a passion slave, unless you have seriously studied Gor.